Travel

In March my lab bench gathered a lot of dust, it was a busy month between teaching 2 brilliant club placements, demonstrating for an undergraduate unit, moving house and attending the Society for General Microbiology’s (SGM) annual conference. With my lab bench gathering dust it’s also meant my blog has gathered a little dust, it’s […]

So I wrote in my last post about the opportunities you get as a PhD student and how your life is unlikely to ever be so flexible again, so I thought I would use this post to tell you all about one of the opportunities I’m currently making the most of. Right now I’m in […]

Recently all the new PhD students arrived, and in their first week they receive an induction from the graduate school. The induction provides a lot of the information they need to know for the next few years and also includes a talk from a current PhD student… cue this particular student. That’s right I gave a […]

So after last weeks post about not working weekends I actually flew off on Saturday evening to Germany for a 2 day, Sunday-Monday, conference in Göttingen. I think this is a little different to the kind of work I discussed in my last post though, this is a exception not the rule. I think my boyfriend […]

As I mentioned in my last post I attended my first large scientific conference last week. This was “Microbiology after the genomics revolution: Genomes 2014″ and was held at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. It was a big event with ~500 people attending and there was a lot to see, do and learn. We began our […]